A/HRC/33/31 A. Support to the Working Group on the Right to Development 8. OHCHR provided support to the Working Group on the Right to Development for the organization of its resumed sixteenth annual session,2 held from 1 to 4 September 2015, and its seventeenth annual session,3 held from 25 April to 3 May 2016. OHCHR also supported the Chair-Rapporteur during the intersessional period, in holding informal consultations and presenting the report of the Working Group to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. 9. At its sixteenth session, the Working Group considered a draft framework to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Working Group, prepared by the former Chair-Rapporteur.4 At its seventeenth session, it considered standards for the implementation of the right to development, prepared by the Chair-Rapporteur.5 The Working Group also completed the second reading of the draft right to development criteria and operational subcriteria.6 10. The Working Group held an interactive dialogue on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the former co-facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda, the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations and the Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations.7 B. Activities relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development 11. During the period under review, OHCHR conducted numerous activities, many of which were devoted to marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development. Examples of these activities are summarized below.8 In addition, OHCHR paid due attention to the right to development in the context of its support to human rights mechanisms. 12. In Colombia, OHCHR advocated for the incorporation of a human rights-based approach to the national development plan as a means of achieving the right to development and peace. Special attention was paid to devising indicators for measuring the realization of economic, social and cultural rights. OHCHR also worked to promote and protect the right to development of indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombians and supported the creation of a network of 14 indigenous peoples to claim their collective rights. 13. In Uganda, OHCHR focused on building institutional capacities to promote and protect the right to development. It provided technical assistance to the Government on integrating a human rights-based approach to programming in the national development plan, including by integrating human rights indicators in its monitoring and evaluation framework. OHCHR strengthened the capacity of non-governmental organizations to effectively participate in the development process and to monitor the implementation of the plan and supported the launch of a network of public interest litigators, with a focus on 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 See A/HRC/30/71. See A/HRC/33/45. A/HRC/WG.2/16/2. A/HRC/WG.2/17/2. A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2. See A/HRC/33/45. More information on these and other activities is available at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/ Development/Pages/DevelopmentIndex.aspx. 3